Frustrated broadband users in Bradley Stoke have been given new hope of an improvement in connection speeds after BT launched a scheme whereby residents can vote for their neighbourhood to be fast-tracked for the installation of superfast broadband. The Race to Infinity Scheme invites residents to vote online for their area to become one of the first to enjoy fibre
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Last Saturday’s Community Showcase event in the Town Square has been hailed a success by organisers and stall holders. The event, now in its second year, saw over 30 local businesses and organisations promoting their activities to shoppers at Bradley Stoke’s popular Willow Brook shopping centre. The event got underway at 11am with a colourful flag-waving display from the South
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A Bradley Stoke man has been jailed for nearly three years after exposing himself via a webcam to what he thought was a 13-year-old girl. In fact, his obscene act was being watched by Australian police officers, who had posed as children on a social networking site. A raid on the 42-year-old’s Lavender Way home uncovered 3,000 child pornography images
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The second annual Community Showcase event for the Severnvale locality is being staged in Bradley Stoke’s Town Square at the Willow Brook Centre tomorrow (Saturday 2nd October). Organised by Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP), the event gives the local community an opportunity to meet local groups and businesses as well as representatives from the local police, churches and schools. Up
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Residents are being invited to turn out to help McDonald’s and Bradley Stoke Town Council tidy up the town on Wednesday (29th September) from 10am to 3pm. More than 20 staff from the McDonald’s restaurant at Cribbs Causeway are due to join Mayor Ben Walker and local MP Jack Lopresti “to target problem areas in Bradley Stoke”, according to a
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A roofer from Bradley Stoke, who was recently voted “Bristol’s Next Top Model”, has starred in a prestigious fashion show at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway. Lee Matthews, 21, was chosen as the male winner of the 2010 Bristol Evening Post fashion contest last weekend, entitling him to make his catwalk debut on Thursday (23rd September) in the Bristol Fashion Week
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A Patchway pub has launched a competition to find the ‘best teacher’ in the Bradley Stoke and Patchway area. Children at local schools are being invited to submit entries before the closing date of Friday 29th October. The prize will be a Christmas party held at the Travellers Rest on the A38 Gloucester Road (also known as the Hungry Horse)
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Roofer Lee Matthews from Bradley Stoke has been voted “Bristol’s next top model” Lee, who also plays semi-professional football for Almondsbury, said: “I have enjoyed it very much, meeting the team and stylists, and feel I have gained confidence in myself.” Lee’s prize is a year’s contract with Bristol’s Mustard model agency and his first assignment will see him take
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Budding photographers in Bradley Stoke are being invited to take a picture that best illustrates an amazing partnership. The competition has been launched by Specsavers in Bradley Stoke, in partnership with Pentax Cameras, to raise awareness of Specsavers’ national charity partner, Guide Dogs. Guide Dogs supporter, the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP, said: “I’ve first-hand experience of how valuable each
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A monthly farmers’ market looks set to go ahead at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre following discussions between the centre’s management and the Town Council. Plans to set up a regular market suffered a setback last month when the Council’s Leisure, Youth & Amenities Committee was told that objections had been received from one of the major businesses at the
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